L'Isle, Guillaume de (1675-1726); R. & J. Ottens.

L'Amérique septentrionale : dressée sur les observations de Mrs. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences & quelques autres, & sur les memoires les plus recens. [Map of North America circa 1742] Original edition.

Amsterdam : Chez R. & J. Ottens, geogrâphes dan le Kalverstraat au Carte du Monde, circa 1742. Large double-page engraving, hand-colored, on old laid paper; old black tape remants on edges of verso, generally good, 23 3/4 x 20 1/4 in. 52 x 60 cm. Cartouche engraved by N. Guérard
OCLC Number: 48190188

Relief shown pictorially.16-3546
Includes illustrated title cartouche.
Shows routes of Cortez, Gaetan, Drake, Medana and Olivier in the Pacific.

Cartographic Mathematical Data: Scale [ca. 1:19,000,000]; (W 125°--W 35°/N 80°--N 5°).

The de L'Isle family was one of the most influential Geographers of the early 18th century in France. Claude de L'Isle, born 1644, had four sons, of which Guillaume was the most notable. Guillaume was born 1675 and became member of the Académie Royale des Sciences with the age of twenty-seven, and was honoured later with the title Premier Géographe du Roi. His largest project, the Atlas de Géographie, was published until 1774 in Paris and Amsterdam (Covens and Mortier). He died in 1726. Item #16-3546

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